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Royal Comedy

Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert

by Stanley Weintraub

Mrs. Brown

a film directed by John Madden. distributed by Miramax Films


Royal Tragedy

By turning herself into a star, Diana managed to defy the House of Windsor and created a very modern fairy tale: the royal celebrity, Diana, Princess of ‘Vanity Fair.’

A Single Jew

Talking Horse: Bernard Malamud on Life and Work

edited by Alan Cheuse and Nicholas Delbanco

The Complete Stories

by Bernard Malamud, edited and introduced by Robert Giroux


The Gods of War

Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War

by Barbara Ehrenreich

The Rosy Future of War

by Philippe Delmas

Postmodern War: The New Politics of Conflict

by Chris Hables Gray


‘Poet of Resentment’

Jackie Robinson

by Arnold Rampersad

Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait

by Rachel Robinson

Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy

by Jules Tygiel

I Never Had It Made

by Jackie Robinson

The Jackie Robinson Reader: Perspectives of an American Hero

edited by Jules Tygiel

Breaking the Line

a television documentary broadcast on ESPN, February 28, 1997

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Report from an Undeclared War

News of a Kidnapping

by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman


Thinking About Thinking

The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science

by Steven Mithen


Among the Missing

The Spoils of War: World War II and Its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property

edited by Elizabeth Simpson

The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art

by Hector Feliciano


Show Us You Care, Ma’am

Why was no flag flying at half mast over Buckingham Palace?

The Multiculturalist Misunderstanding

On Toleration

by Michael Walzer

We Are All Multiculturalists Now

by Nathan Glazer


Desperate Characters

Bear and His Daughter: Stories

by Robert Stone


Why the Cold War Worked

We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History Press

by John Lewis Gaddis

The Cominform: Minutes of the Three Conferences 1947/1948/1949

edited by Giuliano Procacci


Slightly Sacred Poet

Subhuman Redneck Poems

by Les Murray


The Riddle of the French Renaissance

L'Art de la Renaissance en France: L'invention du classicisme

by Henri Zerner


The Great Inventor

Bach and the Patterns of Invention

by Laurence Dreyfus


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